Taking It a Step Further

After you’ve assigned a custom page template to a page, you can tell your site to use this page as the front page and here’s how:

On the left side of the WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > Reading.

For the Front Page Displays setting, select A Static Page

Now, the Front Page drop-down options are available to you.

Select the page you want to use as the front page.

Click on Save Changes button.

If this is your first time using this option, you more than likely don’t have a page already reserved for the Posts Page option. If you really don’t, create a new blank Page and then come back to Settings > Reading to set your Posts Page.